To provide a camera that is suited to shoot both a demagnified image and a
magnified image.The camera includes a housing body 11 containing a CCD
15, and a lens barrel 12. An abutted member 20 having an objective lens
40 therein is engaged with the lens barrel 12 and a rotatable
manually-controlled member 30 is fitted around that lens barrel. The
abutted member 20 moves back and forth in the direction of an optical
axis K in response to the rotation of the manually-controlled member 30.
A user moves the objective lens 40 back and forth by moving the abutted
member 20 back and forth to shoot either a demagnified image or a
magnified image. A demagnified image is photographed with the abutted
member 20 contained in the lens barrel 12. A magnified image is
photographed with the abutted member 20 projected from the lens barrel
12. An end of the abutted member 20 is positioned so that the focal point
of the objective lens 40 falls on the center thereof. To shoot the
magnified image, the user abuts the end of the abutted member 20 against
the object.